Francis Marsac

Francis Marsac (PhD) is an oceanographer and fisheries scientist at the French Institute of Research for sustainable Development (IRD). He started his career in 1979 in the Pacific islands then moved to the Indian Ocean. His has a leading expertise in tuna ecology and assessment of tuna fisheries, working closely with the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), and has been the chairperson of its Scientific Committee for several years. His research also includes the impacts of climate variability and change on marine resources in the Indian Ocean. He played a coordinating role in two regional Large Marine Ecosystem projects funded by the UNDP and the World Bank in the South West Indian Ocean from 2008 to 2013. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Ocean Observing Systems of the IOC-Unesco, the current chairperson of the French National Committee of the 2nd International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2) and a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the IIOE-2. He has been working from island countries of the West Indian Ocean and in South Africa (University of Cape Town) where he led an international laboratory on marine and atmospheric sciences (ICEMASA, 2009-2018). He is currently the IRD Representative in the Seychelles. He has been a visiting academic at the BERI of the University of Seychelles since October 2020, where he supervises research work of MSc students of that University. He has published over 60 research articles in international journals, more than 70 papers in tuna organisations and conferences, and has co-authored several books and book chapters on fisheries and climate impacts on marine ecosystems in the Indian Ocean.

-       Conférences thématiques ou sessions de formation destinées à un public d’étudiants, de techniciens ou de jeunes chercheurs, en France et à l’international : Centre Régional de Télédétection de Nairobi (Kenya), FAO, Université de Brest, ENSA Rennes), workshop de l’IRI (International Research Institute for climate prediction), Seychelles Fishing Authority, ISIM (Université de Montpellier), Université de La Réunion

-       Cours formels entrant dans les ECTS de Master2 (France) ou de Masters of Science (Afrique du Sud) :

o    cours d’océanographie appliquée à l’halieutique, délivré de 1998 à 2001 en 3e année d’Ecole d’ingénieurs en Agronomie, spécialisation halieutique (ENSA Rennes, maintenant AgroCampus) ;

o    cours sur les effets de la pêche et du climat sur la dynamique des écosystèmes hauturiers, délivré de 2005 à 2007, et de nouveau en 2018 et 2019, dans le Master de Montpellier et de Marseille (module commun AERME, sous la responsabilité de l’UMR Marbec) ;

o    cours en océanographie des pêches délivré de 2013 à 2015 dans le Master « Applied Marine Sciences» de  l’UCT, Afrique du Sud.

o    cours en Dynamique des populations et gestion des pêches, fait à l’Institut Agro (Agrocampus) de Rennes, en février 2021.